Social Business
Two Surprising Statistics on Social Business Progress in the Enterprise
Tweet Over the summer, we conducted a short survey among the Social Business Council members to gauge where large enterprises are regarding their progress introducing social to the enterprise. The request was made by a Council member who was looking for some hard benchmarking data he could share with his team. We wanted to answer [...]
Setting Sights on New Heights with 7 Summits!
Tweet Announcing my new gig today! [Press Release] I’ve accepted an offer to work for a gutsy startup with big plans: 7 Summits. Based out of Milwaukee and Chicago, this fast-growing team has been #killingit building award-winning Jive communities that succeed on a foundation of strategy and solid user experience to deliver clearly articulated business [...]
Social Maturity at Scale: From Evangelism to Execution
Tweet It takes a village to raise a tectonic shift in the way companies communicate and operate at scale. No, it will take a network of connected villages. And it will take over a decade to get past the early adoption phase for social business transformation inside large enterprises. A few threads and blog posts [...]
Attributes of a Socially Optimized Business
Tweet Once again, I had the great pleasure to work with my colleagues on an XPLANATiON with our Social Business Council members. We interviewed a core group of our members to identify the attributes that comprise the whole of the socially optimized business. I think you will agree, the results are fabulous. Where are you [...]
Serendipity Happens… to Deliver Million$
Tweet As the world turns… social, expect to be surprised by the fruits of serendipity. When large workforces embrace working socially, or as I love to call it – in “socialworking” mode, they discover new ways of solving problems and creating opportunities. Insights are revealed in the fluid web of connections and sharing. We’ve seen [...]
Zen and the Art of Enterprise Maintenance
Tweet Surreptitiously, while I was inspired to write this post, I heard Garrison Keillor on NPR’s Writer’s Almanac do a short birthday piece on Robert Persig, author of “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.” For other Hippie 2.0′s out there, “Zen” occupies essential shelf space on the permanent library. (GenY’rs: read it.) Persig, a [...]
